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STATE  OF  ILLINOIS 


FINLEY  F.  BELL,  Secretary 


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Illinois    Party    Platforms 


1914 


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UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 
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SELECT     BIBLIOGRAPHIES    OF     AVAILABLE 

MATERIAL  ON  FILE  IN  THE  LEGISLATIVE 

REFERENCE  BUREAU,  RELATING  TO 

THE    SUBJECTS    ENUMERATED 

THEREIN. 


Legislative  Reference  Bureau 


STATE  OF  ILLINOIS 


FINLEY  F.  BELL,  Secretary 


FOREWORD 

The  Legislative  Reference  Bureau  was  created  by  the  Foi'ty- 
eighth  General  Assembly  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Legislature  information  on  legislative  topics  and 
has  collected  several  thousand  books  and  pamphlets  dealing  with 
economic  and  sociological  matters,  Statutes  of  the  various  States, 
State  documents,  Court  Reports,  reports  and  proceedings  of  con- 
ferences of  public  bodies,  associations,  etc.,  magazine  articles, 
bibliographies,  digests  and  newspaper  clippings  bearing  on  legis- 
lation. The  Bureau  is  non-political  in  its  organization  and  methods 
and  its  services  are  gratuitous.  It  suggests  no  legislation  and 
furthers  no  special  interests,  excepting  the  furnishing  of  data  for 
the  General  Assembly.  This  pamphlet  is  published  for  the 
purpose  of  acquainting  the  several  candidates  and  public  as 
well,  with  the  information  collated  by  this  Bureau  for  their  use. 
The  list  of  references  is  selected  and  does  not  include  all  the 
material  on  hand,  being  only  the  most  important  and  up  to  date 
matter  relating  to  Illinois  issues. 


SELECT  BIBLOGRAPHIES. 

AGRICULTURAL  EXTENSION. 

Buttrick,     Wallace,    and    others.       Farm    demonstration     work. 

1913. 
ilifornia.      Board   of   Agriculture.      Agricultural    experiment 

stations    in    the    United    States,    (in    its    Report     for    1912 

p.  320.) 
Galloway,  B.  T.     Relation  of  the  United  States  department  of 

agricultural  colleges  and  experiment  stations.     1913. 
U.   S.  Department  of  Agriculture.      Experiment   station   records. 

Monthly. 

Reports. 

Kentucky L911-1913 

Nevada    1912 

New  Hampshire L910-1911 

New  Jersey 1912 

Purdue    University    1 c J 1 3 

BANKS  AND  BANKING. 

Manner.  Yernice  Earle.  Protecting  the  bank  depositor.  Re- 
view of  Reviews,  Feb.  191  I. 

Dowrie.  George  William.  The  development  of  banking  in 
Illinois  1817-1863-     1913. 

Illinois.  Auditor.  Statements  showing  the  condition  of  Illinois 
State  banks.     1913. 

Investment  Bankers'  Association  of  America.  Proceedings  of 
First  Annual  Convention.     1912. 

Laughlin.  James  Lawrence.  State  banks  and  trust  companies. 
(in    his    Banking    Reform,    p.    269). 

Williams,  John  Skelton.     Democracy  in  banking.     1914. 

Repok  i  s 

Maine 1 912 

Massachusetts    1912 

\ I  iehigan 1912 

Minnesota 1911 

Montana    L912 

Nevada 1910-1912 

'     New  Jersev    1912 

New  York' 1912 

Ohio 1912 

West  Virginia 1911-1912 

Wisconsin 1912 


6  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE    BUREAU 

BANKS  AND  BANKING    -Concluded. 

Laws  (in  pamphlet  form.) 

Idaho    ;:n;! 

Illinois     11)13 

[owa    ". . .      1913 

Kansas 1913 

Maine     - 1913 

Maryland    : ! 912 

Pennsylvania   !!>o;.  mioh.  mil 

West  Virginia    1913 

BLUE  SKY  LAWS. 

Dolley,  J.  N.  The  Kansas  Blue  Sky  law  with  a  re-draft  con- 
taining such  amendments  as  recommended  after  two  years 
administration.     1913. 

Investment  Bankers'  Association  of  America.  The  I  Hue  Sky 
law.  Michigan.  Opinion  of  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court. 
1914. 

Knnual  report  of  counsel  on   I  Hue  sky  laws 

1913. 

Lvtle,  H.  M.  Promoting  "wild  cat"  stocks.  The  Voter,  Feb. 
1913. 

New  York.  Committee  on  Speculation  in  Securities  and  Com- 
modities. Report.     1909. 

New  York  Stock  Exchange.  Brief  and  reply  brief  submitted 
on  behalf  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange  to  the  Senate 
Committee  on   Banking  and  Currency.     1914. 

Texas.       State  Department.        The  Blue  sky  law.       191-1. 

Utermeyer,  Samuel.  Argument  before  Senate  Committee  on 
Banking  and  Currency  in  support  of  S.  B.  3895,  to  regulate 
the  use  of  mails,  telegraph  and  telephone  by  stock  ex- 
changes.    1914. 

CIVIL  SERVICE. 

Bryce,  James.  Civil  service,  (in  his  American  commonwealth, 
v.  2.  p.  136.) 

Catherwood,  Robert.  Draft  of  a  model  civil  service  law  em- 
boding  the  essential  principles  of  a  practical  merit  system 
of  public  employment.     1913. 

Chicago.  Civil  service  commission.  Civil  service  text  book. 
1911-1912,     1912. 

Childs,  Mary  Louise.  The  merit  system  in  Illinois,  (in  her 
Actual  government  in  Illinois,     p.  175.) 

Illinois.  Civil  Service  Commission.  Rules  and  classification. 
1914. 

Illinois.  Civil  Service  Commission.  Rules  in  effect  Ian.  24, 
1913.     1913. 

Illinois  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs.  Report  oi  the  civil 
service  department,     (in  Year  Book  1913-191  1.  p.  30.  I 

National  Assembly  of  Civil  Service  Commissions.  Discussion 
of  a  model  civil  service  law.  (in  Proceedings  of  6th  meet- 
ing.    1913.  p.  128.) 


LEGISLATIVE    aEFERENCE    BUREAU  7 

CIVIL  SERVICE— c  onduded. 

National  Assembly  of  Civil  Service  Commissioners.  Proceed- 
ings 6th  meeting.     1913. 

New  York.  Civil  Service  Commission.  Manual  of  examina- 
tions, 1911. 

New  York  Civil  Service  Reform  Association.  Women's  Auxili- 
ary. Extent  of  the  merit  system  in  cities  and  states  of 
the  United  States.  (in  its  Bibliography  of  civil  service 
reform  and  related  subjects.        1913.  p.  68.  > 

Xew  York  City.  Municipal  Service  Commission.  Rules  and 
classification  as  prescribed  and  established,  Dec.  1903,  with 
amendments  to  July   1909.     1909. 

Repob  rs. 

Chicago   1912 

Illinois    L910  L911 

Los  Angeles L912 

Massachusetts   L911 

New  lersev L913 

Xeu  York 1914 

Wisconsin  L912 

CONSTITUTIONS. 

Askin,  Thomas.  Parallel  references.  The  Constitution  of  South 
Dakota.  Constitutional  debates  with  digest  of  Supreme 
Court  reports.    1910. 

Bryce,  lames.  Constitutional  conventions.  (In  his  American 
Commonwealth.       v.  1.  p.  681.) 

Child-,  Mary  Louise.  Amendent  to  the  Illinois  Constitution,  (in 
her  Actual  government  in  Illinois,  p.  198.) 

Connecticut.  [ournal  of  the  Constitutional  convention  of  Con- 
necticut held  at  Hartford  in  1818.     1901. 

Dickerson,  O.  M.  The  Illinois  Constitutional  convention  of  1862. 
1905. 

Dodd,  Walter  Fairleigh.  Revision  and  amendment  >>t  state  con- 
stitutions.    1910. 

I  hum.  Jacob  Piatt-     The  proposed  Constitution  of  Indiana.     1911. 

Garner,  James  Wilford.  Essentials  of  a  written  constitution,  i  in 
his   Introduction  to  political  science.       p.  3! 

Garner,  lames  Wilford.  The  State  Constitution,  (in  his  Gov- 
ernment in  the  United  States,     p.  57.1 

Guthrie.  William  I).  Constitutional  morality.  North  American 
Review.     August,  1912. 

Illinois.  Legislative  Reference  Bureau.  Digest  of  representa- 
tion as  shown  in  the  various  State  constitutions.  191  I. 

Michigan.  Legislative  Reference  Department.  Constitutional 
compilations;  provisions  of  the  various  State  constitutions 
compared  with  similar  provisions  in  the  Michigan  constitution 
of  1X50.     1907. 


8  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU 

O  >XS'l  I  i  UTIONS — Continued. 

\mendent  and  revisions. 

Boundaries,  seat  of  government  and  departments. 

Uribery  and  corruption. 

Education  and  public  school;-. 

Elections. 

Eminent  domain. 

Executive  department. 

Exemptions,     (from  Taxation.) 

Finance  and  taxation. 

Impeachment  and  removal  from  office. 

Judicial  department. 

Labor  interests. 

Legislative  department- 
Liquor  tratic;  provisions  for  its  regulation  or  suppression. 

Military  affairs. 

Miscellaneous  provisions  and  addenda. 

Minimum  wage   (1913 J. 

Municipal    corporations;   provisions    relating   to    counties, 
townships,  cities  and  villages. 

Preambles  and  Bills  of  Rights. 

Provisions    which    have    no    corresponding    sections    in    the 

Michigan  Constitution. 

Public  lands  and  forest  protection. 

Rights  of  Women. 

State  officers;  Salaries;  State  Boards  and  institution-. 
Michigan.     Proceedings  and  debates  of  constitutional  conventions. 

1907.    2  v. 
New  Hampshire.    Convention  to  revise  the  constitution.    Journal- 

1912. 
New  York.     Constitutional  convention.      1894.     Revised  record. 

1900.     5  v. 
Schroeder,  Theodore.     Methods  of  constitutional  construction. 
U.  S.  Library  of  Congress.     Additional  references  on  state  con- 
stitutions;  provisions,  methods  of  amendment,  etc.   Bibli- 
ography.    Tpw. 

State  Constitutions.  (///  pamphlet  form.) 

Alabama    1901 

California    1912 

Connecticut     1<,()1 

Deleware   1913 

Illinois    1914 

Indiana    1913 

Maine 1902 

Massachusetts 1913 

Michigan    1909 

Minnes<  >ta 1912 

Missouri    1909 

Nebraska  1913 


LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE    BUREAU  9 

CONSTITUTK  >.\S     Concluded. 

New  York 1913 

New   fersey  1910 

Nevada 1913 

i  Ihio    L914 

Pennsylvania 1909 

ith  Dakota  1910 

Vermont 1913 

\  irginia  1912 

Washington   1911 

Wisconsin 1911 

COOPERATIVE  ASSOCIATIONS. 

Carver,  T.  X.    The  rural  organization  service.  1913. 

Ford,  J.    Coope ration  in  New  England.     1913. 

Illinois.     Legislative  reference  bureau.     Bibliograph)    dealing 

with  cooperation  in  New  England  with  extracts  from  the 

laws.     By  James  C.  Holland.     Tpw. 
Massachusetts.       Bank     commissioners.       Annual     report     on 

cooperative  banks.     Pt.  2.     1913. 
Russel  Sage  Foundation  Library.  Cooperative  credit.  A  selected 
bibliography.     1914. 

LT.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics.  Digest  of  laws  on  coopera- 
tive associations,  (in  its  Labor  laws  of  the  U.  S.  1914. 
Pt.  1,  p.  87. 

U.  S.  Commission  on  Cooperative  Credit.  Agricultural  cooper- 
ation and  rural  credit  in  Europe.     1913. 

DRAINAGE. 

Indiana.  Bureau  of  Legislative  Information.  Drainage  and  re- 
clamation of  swamp  and  overflowed  lands.     1914. 

Minnesota.  Drainage  Commission.  Report  of  the  Drainage 
Commission  on  drainage  work  in  Minnesota.     1913. 

Illinois.     Laws.     1906.     1913. 


EFFICIENCY  AND  ECONOMY. 

Brewer,  Charles  B.     Economy  and  efficiency  in  the  trowrnment. 

North  American  Review.     March,  1912. 
Card,  George  F.   Charting  each   stenographer's   work       System, 

April,  1912. 
Chicago  Bureau  of  Public  Efficiency.     Reports.     1910-1914. 
Civic  League  of  Cleveland.     Report  of  the  investigation  of  the 

recorder's  office.    Made  in  the  interesl  of  efficiency  and  econ 

omy.     1913. 

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10  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU 

EFFICIENCY  AND  EO  >N<  MY— Concluded. 

Coulsom,  R.  E.  Are  S300.000.000  worth  saving?  The  oppor- 
tunity and  the  work  done  by  the  Men.  .my  and  Efficiency 
mmission  at  Washington.      System.      April.  1913. 

Illinois.  Efficiency  and  Economy  committee.  Preliminary  report. 
1914. 

Indiana.     Legislative  Visiting  Committee.     Report-     1913. 

Massachusetts.  Economy  and  Efficiency  Commission.  Annual 
report.       1912-1! 

Muiphy,  Carrol  D.      The  man  for  the  job.  System.    May.  19 

Redrield.  William  C.     The  habit  of  efficiency.  System.     May.  1913. 

Remington  Typewriter  Co.  The  high  cost  of  stenographic  ser- 
vice ami  how  to  reduce  it. 

Talbot,  Winthrop.  Vistualizing  the  cost  of  supplies.  System. 
May.  1913. 

U.  S.  House  of  Representatives.  Me— age  of  the  President  of 
the  United  States  transmitting  the  reports  of  the  Commis- 
sion on  Economy  and  Efficiency.     1913. 

U.  S.  Economy  and  Efficiency  Commission.  Circular-.     1911-1914. 

ELECTIONS. 

Pennsvlvania.  Commission  to  revise  and  codify  the  election  laws. 
Condensed  memorandum  of  the  election  laws  of  the  various 
states,     i  Appendix  to  its  third  and  final  report.  I 

Laws.    <  In  pamphlet  form.) 

California 'H 

Dele  ware   1913 

Illinois    1908,     1912,  1913 

Iowa 1908 

Kansas   1913 

Louisiana 1900 

Maryland 1908 

Massachusetts    1907.     1908,     1909,  1911 

Minnesota    I 

Montana 1910 

Nevada    1913 

Xew  Tersev I 

Oregon   . .' 1907,  1911 

Pennsylvania    1903,  1913 

Washington    1912 

EMPL<  >YMENT  AGENCIES 

American  Labor   Legislation  Review.   Employment   bureaus.    I  in 

it-  Administration  of  Labor  laws.    p.  491.) 
American    Labor   Legislation   Review.      Unemployment.      (in    its 

Review  of  Labor  Legislation.     1912.  p.  491.) 


LEGISLATIVE    REFERENCE    BUREAU  11 

EMPLOYMENT    VGEXCIES     Concluded. 

Flexner,  Abraham.  Employment  agencies.  i  in  his  Prostitution 
in  Europe.    p.  94-95.) 

Illinois.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics.     Weekly  bulletin-. 

Leisersi.n.  William  E.  The  theoiy  of  public  employment  offices 
and  the  principles  of  their  practical  administration.  Political 
Science  Quarterly.     March  1914. 

U.  S.  Bureau  of  Labor.  Cumulative  index  <>f  labor  laws  on  em- 
ployment agencies.  <  in  it-  Labor  Legislation  of  1912.  p.  237.) 

I".  S.  Bureau  of  Labor.  Statistics  of  unemployments  and  the 
work  of  employment   offices.      1912. 

Reports 

Berkeley,  Cal 19L1 

ilorado  ! 1°11 

Illinois    1907-1914 

Massachusetts   1912 

Minnesota    1911 

I  »hio     1911 

West  Virginia  191 1 

Laws  (  in  pamphlet  form,  i 

Illinois    1913 

New  York 1913 

FARM  ERS'  INSTITUTES. 

Delaware.       Board  of  Agriculture.     The  Farmers'  institute  in 

Delaware.       1912. 
Illinois.     Farmers'  Institutes.     Bulletins.     Annual  reports-     1903. 

1911.     1912. 
Year  Book  of  the  Department  of  Household 

Science.       1911.  1912.  1913. 
Illinois.       Legislative  Reference  Bureau.       Comparison  of  the 

status  of  Farmers'  institutes  in  the  various  states  of  the 

United  States.       191  1. 

H<  >USING.    • 

\nnals  of  the  American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
Housing  and  town  planning.     1914- 

Aronvici,  Carol.     Housing  conditions  in  New  Britain.  Conn.  1913 

Housing  condition  in  New  I  faven.     1913. 

Atterbury,  Grosvenor.     Model  towns  in  America.     1913. 

Bacon,  Albion  Fellows.       The  awakening  of  a  state.       1910. 

Keer,  G.  Frank.  How  to  get  cheap  houses.  American  City.  Ian. 
1914. 

Bryce,  James-      The  menace  of  great  cities     1913. 

Lraiger.  Sherman  M.  The  progress  of  good  housing.  Ameri- 
can Review  of  Reviews,  Now  191  I. 


12  LEGISLATIVE    REFERENCE    BUREAU 

HOUSING— Concluded. 

Eugenics  Record  Office.    The  hovel  type  source  of  defectives.  1913. 

Forbe-.   Elmer  S.     Rural  and  suburban  housing.     1913. 

Great  Britain.  Local  Government  Board.  Housing  and  town 
planning.     1913. 

Ihlder,  John.    The  work  of  a  housing  committee.     1912. 

Los  Angeles.     Housing  Commission.     Reports.     1906-13. 

National  Housing  Association.     Recent  progress  in  housing.  1914. 

New  Jersey.  Tenement  House  Supervision  Board.  Annual  Re- 
port.  '1914. 

Palmer,  George  Thomas.    The  survey  and  the  smaller  city.     1911. 

Philadelphia.     City  Club  Bulletin.     May   13,   1912. 

Philadelphia.    Housing  Commission.     Annual  report.     1912. 

White,  Alfred  T.     The  effect  of  a  housing  law.     1913. 

INITIATIVE  AND  REFERENDUM. 

California.    State  department.    Sample  ballot.     1914. 

Eaton,  Allen  H.  The  Oregon  system :  The  story  of  direct  legis- 
lation in  Oregon.     1912. 

Fairlie,  John  A.  The  Referendum  and  Initiative  in  Michigan. 
Reprinted  from  the  Annals.     Sept.  1912. 

Hartwell,  E.  M.  The  Vote  on  Boston's  referenda  for  one  hun- 
dred years,  (in  Proceedings  of  the  Cincinnati  conference 
for  good  city  government,  p.  334.  i 

Meyer,  Herman  H.  B.  Select  list  of  references  on  Initiative, 
referendum  and  recall.    1912. 

National  Economic  league.  The  Initiative  and  referendum. 
1912. 

Oberholzer,  Ellic  Paxson.     The  referendum  in  America.     I'M  1. 

Oregon.  State  department.  Proposed  constitutional  amend- 
ments and  measures  with  arguments  respecting  the  same. 
1914. 

Progressive  National  Service.  Legislative  reference  bureau. 
Status  of  direct  legislation  in  the  United  States.     1913. 

Progressive  National  Service.  Legislative  reference  bureau.  The 
.Massachusetts  plan  for  the  initiative  and  referedum. 

Teal,  Joseph  N.  The  practical  working  of  the  initiative  and 
referendum  in  Oregon,  (in  Proceedings  of  the  Cincinnati 
conference    for    good    city    government.        p.    309 

Thomas,  David  Y.  Direct  legislation  in  Arkansas.  Political 
Science  Quarterly.     1913. 

U.  S.  Supreme  Court.  Initiative  legislation  unconstitutional. 
The  brief  for  the  plaintiff  in  error  in  the  case  of  the  Pacific 
States  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Co.,  v.  State  of  Oregon,  de- 
cided at  the  October  term,  1908. 

Vrooman,  Carl  S.  Initiative  and  referendum  in  Switzerland. 
1913. 

Bryce,  James.  State  judges.  (in  his  American  common- 
wealth,     v.  1.  p.  563.) 


LEGISLATIVE  REFERENCE  BUREA!  13 

J  LI  >GES— SELECTION. 

Garner,  James  Wilford.  Methods  of  choosing  judges,  (in  his 
Government  in  the  United  States,  p.  113.) 

Gigliotti,  Cairoli.  Courts  and  judges,  (in  his  Problems  of  today, 
p.  65.) 

Hornblower,  W.   B-     The  Independence  of  the  judiciary.     1912. 

Kales,  Albert  M.  Methods  of  selecting  and  returning  judges  in 
a  metropolitan  district,  (in  Annals  of  the  American  Acad- 
emy of   Political  and   Social  Science,     v.  52.  p.   1.) 

Pearson,  Paul  Martin.  Appointment  v.  election  of  judges,  (in 
•    his  Intercollegiate  Debates,  v.  1.  p.  345.) 

JUDICIARY    -REF(  >RM. 

Alger,  George   \Y.     Swift  and  cheap  justice.     World's  Work. 
Organizing  the  courts  for  business     (  tat.   1913. 
Helping  our  halting  justice.     Nov-   1913. 
Giving  judges  the  power  to  be  just.     Dec.  1913. 
Sporting  theory   of  justice.       Jan.   1914. 
American  Bar  Association.    Reports  of  the  special  committee 
to  suggest  remedies  and  formulate  proposed  laws  to  pre- 
vent delay  and  unnecessary  cost  in  litigation.     1912. 
Annals  of  American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  science. 

Reform  in  administration  of  justice.     1914. 
Burgess,  Kenneth  F.     A  survey  of  the  ninth  judicial  district 

of  Wisconsin.     1914. 
Gigliotti.  Cairoli.    Courts  and  judges,     (in  his  Problems  of  to- 
day,    p.  65.) 
Michigan.     Legislative  Reference  Department.     Constitutional 
provisions   of   the   other   states   compared    with   those    of 
Michigan.     1909. 
National  Economic  League.     Preliminary  report  on  efficiency 
in  the  administration  of  justice.     1913. 

LABOR  LAWS. 

Dunne,  Edward  F.  Uniformity  of  safety  and  sanitation  laws 
for  places  of  employment,  including  administrative  and 
machinery.     1914. 

Cooperation    between    states    for    uniform 

industrial  legislation.       1914. 

LABOR  QUESTION— WOMEN. 

Abbott.   E.,   and   Breckinridge,   S.     Women   in   industry ;   the 

Chicago  stock-vards.      Tournal   of   Political   Economy,     v. 

1'.'      1911. 
Ames.  Azel,  Jr.     Sex  in  industry.    A  plea  for  the  working  girl. 
Balten,  Samuel  Jane.     The  industrial  menance  to  the  home. 
Bosworth.  Louise  Marion.    The  living  wage  of  women  workers. 

1911. 
Cutler,  Elizabeth  Beardsley.     Women  and  the  trades.     1909. 

(Russel  Sage  foundation  publications.) 


14  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE    Bl'RKAr 

LABOR  QUESTION— W<  MEN— Concluded. 

Connecticut.     Wage  commission. 

Report  of  the  special  commission  to  investigate  the  condi- 
tion of  wage  earning  women  and  minors  in  the  state.    1913. 

Illinois.  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics.  Alphabetical  arrange- 
ment of  industries  with  working  time  and  wages  earned. 
1902. 

Illinois.     Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics. 

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Journal  of  Political  Economy,     v.  21.  No.  2. 


LEGISLATIVE    REFERENCE    BUREAU  16 

LABOR  UNK  >NS. 

Woods,   R.   A.  &    Kennedy,  J.   A.     Young   working   girls.     A 
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Brooks,  John  Graham.    The  problem  of  syndicalism.     I'.M  I. 
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L912. 
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L913. 
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(in  its  Labor  Laws  of  the  U.  S.  pt.  1.  p.  81.   1914.) 
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LEGISL  \TI\T.   PR(  >CEDURE     RULES, 

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lative  procedure  of  the  various  states.     1913.     'J  pw.  i 
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its  Legislative  procedure  in  the  forty-eight  states,    p.  16.) 
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its  Reform  of  legislate  e  procedure  and  budget  in  Nebraska. 

p.  liu 
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16  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU 

MINIMUM   W  \GE— Concluded. 

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Millis,  Harry  A.     Some  aspects  of  the  minimum  wage. 
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MUNICIPAL  IK  >ME  RULE. 

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American  City.     Feb.   1914. 
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rule.     American  Political  Science  Review.    August.     1911. 
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POLITICAL  CORRUPTN  >X. 

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Crews,  Nalbert  O.  The  reign  of  bribery  and  corruption  in  the 
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1914. 

3— L  B  R 


18  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU 

PRIMAR 1 ES— Concluded. 

Law.-.    I  /;;.  pamphlet  form,  i 

California 1909,  1914 

Delaware 1906,  1910 

Iowa     1909 

Michigan    1913 

Kansas    , 1913 

New   Jersey 1909 

Wisconsin    190*3 

PRISON   LABOR— (CONTRACT). 

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states   of   the   union    in    reference   to   the   employment   of 

convicts.     1911. 
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1911-1912. 
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(in    Cyclopedia    of   American    Government.      1914.      v.    •">. 

p.  60.) 
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contract  system,      (in   its   Prison   labor   in   the  governor's 

messages.     1912-13.     p.  38.) 
'  >hio.       Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics.       Special  report  on  prison 

labor.     1910. 
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and  direct  primaries.  National  Municipal  Review.  Jan. 
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Illinois.  State  department.  Illinois  apportionment  handbook, 
concerning  congressional  and  senatorial  districts  outside 
of  Cook  County  with  maps,  tables  of  population  and  offi- 
cial vote.     1911. 

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Senatorial  and  congressional  apportionment.     1901. 


LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU  19 

PROPORTIONAL  REPRESENTATION— Concluded. 

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ity representation  in   Illinois.     1870-1908.     1909. 
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representation.     Political  science  quarterly.     March,  1914. 

PUBLIC  FUNDS— INTEREST. 

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Laws   relating   to   depositories   and   duties   and   responsi- 
bilities of  treasurers.     1914. 
Brennan.  J.  P.     Interest  on  state  funds  under  the  competitive 

bid  plan.     1909-1914.     1914. 
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the  office  of  county  treasurer.     1911. 
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county  treasurer.     1914. 
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special  reference  to  the  question  of  interest  on  public  funds. 

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from  the  accumulation  of  state  funds  from  1907-1912.     1912. 
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funds.'    1911. 

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Allen,  Walter   S.     Some  problems  of  public  ownership.      1914. 

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to  government  ownership  of  railways.     1914. 

Dunne,  Edward  F.  The  growth  of  public  control  of  utilities. 
1913. 

Municipal   (  hvnership    of    Public  Utilities. 

1904. 

Ely,  Richard  T.  Municipal  ownership  of  natural  monopolies, 
(in  his  Evolution  of  industrial  society,    p.  225.) 

Guyot,  Yves.       Wrhere  and  why  public  ownership  has  failed. 
'  1914. 
Harrison.  Carter  H.       Public  property  in  private  hands.     1912. 

Holcombe,  A.  N.  Public  ownership  of  telephones  on  the  conti- 
nent of  Europe.     1911. 

PUBLTC  UTILITIES— VALUATION. 

Gray,  John  H.  The  regulation  of  public  service  corporations. 
The  vagaries  of  valuation.  American  Economic  Review. 
Mar.  1914. 

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principles  of  public  utility   valuation.     1913. 


20  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU 

PUBLIC  UTILITIES— VALUATK  >N— Concluded. 

McPherson,  Logan  G.    The  valuation  of  railways,  (in  his  Five 

lectures  on  .transportation.      p.  70.) 
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perties of  the  Wisconsin  steam  and  electric  railroads  for 
year  ending    fune  30,    1912.       (in   6th    Biennial  report,  p. 
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RECALL. 

Brown,  Rome  G.     Recall  of  judges.     Argument  in  -  tion. 

1914. 

Eaton,  Allen  H.     The  Oregon   system.      The   story   of  direct 

legislation  in  Oregon.     191  2. 
Hamilton,  Charles   II.       Constitutional  chaos...    1912. 
Kansas.    University   of.      Extension    Division.      The    recall    of 

judges.     1913/ 
Stilson,  Fielding  J.    The  operation  of  the  recall  in  Los  Angeles. 

(in   Proceedings  of  the  Cincinnati  conference     for     good 

city  government.       1909.  p.  326.  i 

ROADS— FEDERAL  AID. 

Davis,  Charles  Henry.  National  highways  bring  about  good  roads 

everywhere-     1913. 
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roads,     (rood  roads.     Preliminary  report.     1913. 

SCH( )(  >LS  AS  S(  )CIAL  CENTERS. 

Chicago  Daily  News.     Social  centers  in  public  scho.il>.     August 

10,  1909. 
Hunt,  Caroline  L.     The  daily  meals  of  school  children.     1909. 
Perry,  Clarence  Arthur-     Wider  use  of  the  school  plant.     1911. 
Ward,  Edward  J.      The  magnified  school,  (in  his  Social  center. 

p.  324.)    Bibliography  p.  345. 

SH(  >RT  BALLOT. 

California.     State  department.     Sample  ballot.     1(H4. 

Childs,  R.  S.    Short  ballot  principles.     1911. 

Cincinnati  conference  on  good  city  government.  Round  table  con- 
ference on  the  short  ballot-  fin  Proceedings  of  the  con- 
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Gilbertson,  II.  S.  The  New  York  county  system.  American 
Political  Science  Review.    August,  \{)\4. 

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Los  Angeles  county  charter.     1912. 

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New  York  Short  Ballot  ( )rganization.  The  short  ballot  in  the 
State  of  New  York.     1914- 


LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BURL  AT  21 

SI  1*  >RT  BALD  >T     (  oncluded. 

Nichols,   Egbert   Ray.     The  shorl   ballot,   (in  his   Intercollegiate 

Debates,     v.  2.  p.  319.  | 
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manv.        L912. 
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wage  earners,  with  sick  benefit  and  old  age  and  widow-'  pen 

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TAXATK  »X. 

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I  ioodnow,  F.  J.     Congressional  regulation  of  state  taxation.  1913. 

Gerstenberg,  Charles  W.  Classes  of  tax  legislation,  (in  Ad- 
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22  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE   BUREAU 

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Pt.     2.     Middle  Atlantic  states.     1910. 
Pt-     3.     Eastern  Central  states.     1911. 
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Arizona    1912 

Illinois   1913 

Kentucky 1914 

Maine    1912 

Massachusetts    1912 

Minnesota   1912 

Nevada  1913 

New  Jersey 1912 

New  York 1907 

North  Dakota 1912 

Ohio   1912.  1913 

Washington   1006.  1912 

West  Virginia 1912 

Wyoming  1912 

Laws.    (In  pamphlet  form.) 

Illinois   1909 

Indiana    1909 

Maine    1909 

Nevada 1913 

New  Jersey  l'MV»-1914 

South  Dakota  1913 


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TAXATION— ILLINOIS. 

Chicago  Commercial  Club.  Necessary  reforms  in  the  system 
of  state  taxation  in  Illinois.     1912. 

Fairlie,  John  A.  A  report  of  the  taxation  and  revenue  system 
of  Illinois  prepared  for  the  Special  tax  commission  of 
Illinois.     1910. 

Haig,  Robert  Murray.  A  history  of  the  general  property  tax 
in  Illinois.     1914. 

Illinois.  Auditor.  Tabular  statement  of  the  amount  of  taxes 
charged  for  collection  against  the  equalized  assessed  valua- 
tion of  railroad  property.     1912. 

Illinois.  Auditor.  Statement  of  property  assessed  for  1912  in 
the  several  counties  in  Illinois.     1912. 

Illinois.     Board  of  Equalization.     Proceedings   1911.   1912.   1913. 

Illinois.  Joint  Legislative  Committee  on  Revisions  of  the 
Laws  Relating  to  Countv  and  Township  Organization. 
Taxation,     (in  its  Report. 'l913,  v.  2.  p.  147.) 

Illinois.     Tax  Commission.     Statement.     1913. 

Kales.  Albert  M .  «x  Leissman,  Klmer  M.  Compilation  '>i  tax 
laws  and  judicial  decisions  of  state  taxation  in  Illinois. 
1912. 

Moore,  Nathan  G.     Tax  evils  in  Illinois  and  their  cure.     1913. 

U.  S.  Bureau  of  Corporations.  Changes  affected  in  the  taxa- 
tion of  corporations  in  Illinois.  Railroads  and  capital 
stock  tax.     (in  its  Special  report.     1914.  p.  70.) 

TEXT  BOOKS. 

Dutton,  Samuel   Train   &  Snedden,   David.     Text   books   and 

school  supplies,     (in  their  Administration  of  public  educa- 
tion in  the  United  States.     1908.  pp.  208-229.) 
Gillan,  S.  Y.     Facts  concerning  school  books.     1910. 
Indiana.     Legislative  Reference  Bureau.     Practical  operation 

of  free  text  book  laws  in  certain  representative  states.  1912. 
Kansas.     Legislature.     Act  providing  for  state  publication  of 

school  books  and  the  appointment  of  a  State  school  book 

commission.     1913. 
Kansas.     Text  Book  Commission.     Official  list  of  books  used 

in  the  primary,  grammar  and  high  schools  of  the  state. 

1912. 
Kentucky.     Text  Book  Commission.     State  adoption   of  text 

books.     (1914.) 
Michigan.     Public  Instruction  Department.     List  oi  books  and 

prices  in  accordance  with  the  law  regulating  the  sale  of 

text  books  in  Michigan.     1913. 
Michigan.      Public    Instruction    Department.      Supplementary 

list.     1914. 
Minnesota.     Superintendent  of  Education.     Laws   relating  to 

text  books,      (in  his  Laws  relating  to  the  public  school 

system.     1913.     pp.  66-70.) 
Minnesota.     Superintendent  of  Education.     List  of  books  and 

prices.     September  1,  1911. 


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TEXT  B<  K  >KS     Concluded. 

Missouri.     Superintendent  of  Schools.     Supplementary  list  of 

text  books,  No.  1.     1913. 
North  Dakota.      Public   Instruction  Department.     Price  list  of 

text  books  for  North  Dakota,  issued  April.  1909. 
Ohio.     School  Book  Commission.     Report.  January  1913.     1913. 

UNEMPLOYED. 

American  Labor  Legislation  Review.  Unemployment.  A 
problem  in  industry.       May  1914. 

Kellor,  Frances  A.  (Is  employment  a  municipal  problem?  Nat- 
ional   Municipal    Review.        April    1914. 

Kingsbury,  [ohn  A.  ( )ur  army  of  unemployed.  Review  of  Re- 
views.    April,  1914. 

New  York.  Commission  to  inquire  into  the  question  of  em- 
plovers  liabilitv.  Unemployed  and  lack  of  farm  labor. 
1911. 

New  York.  Labor  department.  Bulletins.  Idleness  of  Organ- 
ized Wage  Earners. 

VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION. 

Best,  R.  H.,  and  Ogden.  C.  K.  The  problem  of  the  continu- 
ation school  and  its  successful  solution  in  Germany.     1914. 

Indianapolis  News.     Vocational  education.     1913. 

Mayer,  Alary  Josephine.  Vocational  training  in  our  public 
schools.       American  Review  of  Reviews.     April,  1912. 

Miles,  H.  E.  What  I  am  trying  to  do  to  give  two  million 
children  a  chance  in  vocational  continuation  in  schools. 
World's  Work,  October,  1913. 

Pennsylvania.  Department  of  Public  Instruction.  Vocational 
education  in  Pennsylvania.     1913. 

U.   S.   Bureau  of  Education.     Vocational   guidance.     1911. 

WOMAN  SUEFRAGE. 

Rlackwell,  Francis  H.     An  electorate  of  men  and  women. 

North  American  Review.     1912. 
Bryce,  James.     Woman  suffrage,     (in  his  American  Common- 
wealth,    v.  2.     p.  600.) 
Harper.  Ida  Husted.     Woman  suffrage  throughout  the  world. 

North   American   Review.     September,   1907. 
Illinois.      Supreme    Court.      Woman    suffrage    decision,    with 

dissenting  opinions  of  Justice  Farmer  and  Justice  Cooke. 

William  Scown  vs.  Anthony  Czarnecki  et  al.     1(>14 
Low.   Maurice  A.    The  "Mission"  of  woman.    North  American 

Review.     August,  1912. 
Progressive    .National    Service.  Legislative    Reference    Bureau. 

Statistical    summary    relating   to    woman    suffrage   in    the 

different  states.     1913.  Tpw. 
Seawell,    Molly    Elliott.      Two    suffrage    mistakes.       (North 

American    Review.     March.     1914. 


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W<  i.M.W  SUFFR  KGE— Concluded. 

Shaw,     \nn;i,    and   others.      Woman    suffrage.      I  in    Governor's 

conference.     Proceedings,  L911.  p.  118:p.  L76.) 
U.  S.  House  of  Representatives.     Woman  suffrage.     Hearings 

before  the  Committee  on  the  judiciary.     L91  I. 
\  year  of  equal  suffrage.     World's  Work.     November,  1913. 

W<  >RKINGMEN'S  C(  >M  PENSATK  >N   (STANDARDS). 

Harper-.  Illinois  workmen's  compensation  laws.  Table-  for 
computing  the  present  value  of  compensation  settlement-. 
191  1. 

Value  table-,  tin  Illinois  workmen's  compensation  act.  101:5. 
P.  29.) 


26  LEGISLATIVE   UKFKRKNCK    BUREAU 


ILLINOIS    DEMOCRATIC    STATE   PLATFORM    1914. 

Adopted  at  Democratic   State  Convention   of  Illinois  held  in  Ar- 
mory at  Springfield,  Illinois,  Sept.  18,  1914. 

The  Democratic  Party  of  Illinois,  represented  in  its  State  Con- 
vention, congratulates  the  nation  upon  the  incomparable  record 
achieved  by  Democracy  under  the  inspiring  leadership  of  President 
Wilson. 

Within  the  brief  period  of  eighteen  months,  the  Democratic 
national  administration  has  taken  up  and  triumphantly  dealt  with 
a  varied,  complex  and  portentous  series  of  problems,  situations 
and  conditions  without  parallel  since  the  nation  was  born. 

"Lest  we  forget"  let  us  recall  to  mind  a  few  of  them: 

1 — A  situation  in  Mexico  inherited  from  a  Republican  pre- 
decessor, inviting  international  complications,  commercial  and  in- 
dustrial distrubance,  and  war. 

2 — Long-standing  demand  ignored  by  Republican  administration, 
for  an  income  tax  law. 

3 — Public  need  of,  and  public  demand  for,  consistent  tariff 
downward  revision,  unheeded  by  Republican  administrations. 

4 — Imperatively  needed  currency  legislation,  long  promised 
but  never  provided  by  Republican  administrations. 

5 — An  inextricable  muddle  of  legislation  and  prosecution 
directed  against  the  evil  practices  of  "big  business,"  all  made  in- 
effective and  inconclusive,  but  damaging  to  honest  business,  by 
Republican  effort  to  placate  sentiment  without  hurting  special  interests. 

6 — Tremendous  and  unexpected  problems,  born  of  Europe's 
war  conflagration,  which  interrupted  and  unhinged  industrial  pro- 
duction, commerce,  finance,  and  ocean  transportation  throughout 
the  world. 

Mark  the  results,  all  achieved  within  less  than  half  a  presi- 
dential term : 

1 — The  Mexican  situation  dealt  with  in  a  spirit  of  firmness, 
with  justice,  and  without  bluster,  that  has  won  the  world's  admira- 
tion, forestalled  war,  conserved  American  blood  and  treasure, 
fended  off  international  complications,  and  set  the  oppressed  Mexi- 
can people  well  on  the  road  to  a  new  era  of  peace,  order  and  general 
welfare. 

2 — An  equitable  income  tax  law  enacted  and  put  into  effect. 

3 — The  tariff  revised  downward  for  the  benefit  of  all  people, 
not  for  a  few  favored  special  interests. 

4 — A  currency  law  that  meets  with  practically  universal  ap- 
proval enacted  and  now  in  process  of  being  put  into  effect. 

5 — Anti-trust  laws  enforced  with  an  eye  single  to  ending  bad 
practices,  not  merely  for  the  sham-battle  purpose  of  "making  a 
record,"  and  new  legislation  to  correct  obscurities  and  incon- 
sistencies in  old  anti-trust  laws,  on  the  eve  of  enactement. 


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6- — Dollar  diplomacy  abolished,  and  the  doctrine  of  human 
rights  substituted  therefor. 

7 — An  insidious  lobby  driven  out  of  Congress. 

8 — The    Panama  Canal  completed. 

9 — Steps  taken  to  open  up  the  great  natural  treasure  house 
of  Alaska;  the  Alaskan  railway  authorized  and  the  survey  thereof 
begun. 

10 — Popular  election  of  United  States  Senators  made  effective. 

11 — Two  great  railway  strikes  averted  by  arbitration,  and  the 
Colorado  coal  strike  settled. 

12  -Destruction  of  the  telephone  and  telegraph  trusts. 

13 — Parcels  post  service  extended  and  made  cheaper. 

14 — Reduction  of  express  rates  and  charges. 

15 — The  elimination  of  the  postal  service  deficit. 

16 — Since  obtaining  control  of  the  lower  house  of  Congress 
three  years  ago.  the  enactment  by  the  Democratic  party  of  more 
labor  legislation,  asked  for  by  the  men  who  work,  than  was  en- 
acted during  all  previous  Republican  administrations. 

17 — Every  problem,  situation  or  condition  arising  from  the 
European  war  promptly,  firmly  and  patriotically  met ;  the  country 
rescued  from  a  financial  crisis,  and  probably  a  crash,  by  quick 
executive  and  legislative  action  ;  war  insurance  for  American  car- 
goes provided  to  open  up  foreign  trade ;  legislative  action  taken 
that  makes  the  hope  of  an  American  merchant  marine  an  immediate 
realization. 

Thanks  to  President  Wilson,  and  to  his  loyal  support  by  the 
Democratic  party,  we  are  at  peace  with  all  the  world  while  the 
nations  of  Europe  are  engaged  in  destructive  war;  we  have  laid 
the  foundation  for  bringing  peace  to  the  warring  nations;  our  in- 
dustrial, commercial  and  financial  structure  is  sound;  the  oppor- 
tunity to  take  first  place  in  finance,  in  commercial  and  industrial 
development,  and  in  the  trade  of  the  whole  world  is  at  our  feet. 

What  page  in  the  history  of  the  American  presidency  carries 
a  record  comparable  with  this? 

And  the  achieving  of  it  has  been  marked  by  a  breadth  of  vis- 
ion, a  firmness  of  purpose  and  a  personal  dignity  and  simplicity 
that  place  the  name  of  Woodrow  Wilson  on  the  honor  roll  of 
American  presidents,  alongside  those  of  Washington,  Jefferson 
and  Lincoln. 

In  the  light  of  this  nation's  need  of  further  constructive  legis- 
lation and  administration  along  the  lines  of  the  record  already 
made,  we  believe  public  interest  demands  that  Woodrow  Wilson 
be  re-elected  president  of  the  United  States,  and  we  now  pledge  to 
him  the  support  of  the  Democratic  party  of  Illinois  for  renomina- 
tion  and  re-election  in  1916. 

We  commend  the  Democratic  representatives  of  Illinois  in 
the  National  House  and  Senate  for  their  unfaltering  support  of 
the  president,  and  we  bespeak  for  them  hearty  approval  at  the  polls 
in  November. 

To  uphold  the  hands  of  the  president  by  electing  men  to  Con- 
gress upon  whom  we  can  rely,  is  the  first  duty  of  patriotic  citizens 


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in  thefee  trying  times.     We  commend  this  thought  to  the  considera- 
tion of  all  citizens  of  Illinois,  regardless  of  party  affiliations. 

To  President  Wilson  (after  March  I.  next)  we  pledge  without 
reservation  the  support  of  another  Senator  from  Illinois,  Roger  C. 
Sullivan,  whose  frank  and  common  sense  appeal  to  the  people  has 
made  him  the  Democratic  nominee  for  United  States  Senator.  For 
his  ability,  for  his  breadth  of  mind,  for  his  ripe  experience  and 
strength  of  character,  we  offer  him  to  the  voters  of  the  state,  re- 
gardless of  party,  as  one  in  every  way  fitted  to  give  Illinois  repre- 
sentation again  in  the  United  States  Senate  commensurate  with 
her  rank  in  the  sisterhood  of  states. 

As  the  simplest  and  most  effective  method  of  dealing  ade- 
quately with  questions  affected  by  state  constitutional  restrictions 
—woman  suffrage,  revenue  reform,  the  initiative  and  referendum. 
the  "short  ballot"  remedy  for  expensive  and  complex  primary  and 
general  elections,  multiplicity  of  taxing  bodies  and  overlapping  of 
governmental  functions  in  Chicago  and  Cook  County,  a  larger 
measure  of  home  rule  for  municipalities,  minority  representation 
in  the  General  Assembly,  and  many  other  questions — we  favor  and 
recommend  provision  by  the  next  General  Assembly  for  a  constitu- 
tional convention,  or 

The  Democratic  party  advocates,  and  will  endeavor  to  bring 
about,  an  amendment  to  the  present  state  constitution  by  striking 
from  Section  2,  Article  14  of  said  constitution  (known  as  the 
amending  clause)  the  words:  "The  General  Assembly  shall  have 
no  power  to  propose  amendments  to  more  than  one  article  of  the 
constitution  at  the  same  session,  nor  to  the  same  article  oftener 
than  once  in  four  years." 

If  said  amendment  be  passed  by  the  next  Legislature  it  can  be 
submitted  to  the  people  for  approval  or  disapproval  by  popular 
vote  in  November,  1916,  and  if  it  can  be  approved  by  the  people, 
as  we  are  confident  it  will  be,  the  present  constitution  can  be 
amended  freely  and  quickly  to  meet  all  the  demands  of  modern 
progress.  If  a  new  constitutional  convention  be  thereafter  adopted, 
(and  it  cannot  be  adopted  under  the  provisions  of  the  present 
constitution  until  long  after  November,  1916,)  this  amendment  to 
the  present  constitution  will  probably  be  incorporated  therein.  If  a 
new  constitution  is  not  adopted,  this  amendment  will  enable  the 
Legislature,  from  time  to  time,  to  propose  any  and  all  emendments 
to  the  present  constitution  which  may  be  demanded  by  the  people. 

The  so-called  amending  clause  of  the  present  constitution 
renders  the  amendment  of  the  constitution  most  difficult  of  attain- 
ment. It  has  acted  as  a  rigid  collar  around  the  throat  of  the  grow- 
ing State  of  Illinois,  and  prevented  that  constitution  from  respond- 
ing to  the  demands  of  modern  progress. 

We  reaffirm  our  belief  that  the  constitution  of  this  state  should 
provide  for  the  initiation  of  legislation  by  the  people  themselves, 
and  for  a  popular  vote  by  referendum  upon  legislation  passed  by 
the  Legislature,  upon  a  demand  therefor  by  a  reasonable  percentage 
of  the  people.  We  make  the  reservation  that  in  the  enactment  of 
a  referendum  amendment  to  the  constitution  or  initiative  and 
referendum  laws,  no  part  of  the  state  be  discriminated  against. 


LEGISLATIVE    REFERENCE   BUREAU 

We  favor  the  abolition  of  the  State  Hoard  of  Equalization  in 
the  interests  of  fair  pla)  in  taxation  and  equity  and  jusl  ind 
efficiency  in  the  assessment  of  taxable  property,  and  we  favor 
the  substitution  for  the  State  Board  of  Equalization,  when  defunct 
and  out  of  existence,  of  a  tax  commission,  clothed  with  adequ; 
power  to"  properlj  classify  the  various  forms  of  property  and  to 
bring  into  the  light  propert)  which  is  now  hidden  and  to  assess  all 
property  at  a  just  and  equitable  valuation  which  now  esca] 
taxation,  the  said  commission  to  be  appointed  b)  the  '  rovemor  with 
the  consent  and  approval  of  the  Senate. 

We  endorse  the  splendid  State  administration  of  the  Memo 
cratic  Governor,  Edward  F.  Dunne,  for  its  efficiency,  it-  economy, 
its  statesmanship,  its  honesty,  it-  steadfast  adherance  to  sound  and 
progressive  principles,  and  we  congratulate  Governor  Dunne  and  the 
people  of  our  State  upon  the  great  success  he  has  achieved  in  the 
redemption  of  almost  all  of  hi-  platform  pledges,  made  previous  to 
his  triumphant  election  two  years  ago. 

We  are  proud  of  the  record  made  by  the    Democratic   Sti 
administration. 

It   has   ratified   the  amendment    to  the   federal   constitution    pro 
viding  for  the  election  of  United  States  Senators  by  the  direct  v< 
of  the  people. 

It  lias  created  a  public  utilities  act  under  which  a  commission 
has  complete  and  absolute  control  of  the  great  public  utilities  of 
the  State,  and  i>  enforcing  rules  and  regulations  for  the  thorough 
protection  of  the  people. 

It  has  placed  upon  the  statute  books  an  act  permitting  every 
city  in  the  State  of  Illinois  to  own  or  operate  or  lease  public  utili- 
ties of  an\    and  all  descriptions. 

It  has  authorized  the  employment  ^\  convicts  in  building 
public  roads,  and  pursuant  to  this  act  such  convicts  are  now  being 
generously  utilized  in  upbuilding  the  State  highways. 

It  has  authorized  the  founding  of  an  epileptic  colony  for  the 
care  of  these  unfortunates. 

It  has  authorized  the  rotation  of  names  upon  the  ballot  for  all 
State  officers. 

It  has  created  a  Legislative  Reference  Bureau  for  the  collection 
of  data  on  economic  and  sociological  subjects  for  the  purpose  ol 
furnishing  complete  information  to  the  people  and  to  members  of 
the  Legislature  upon  all  legislative  topics. 

It  has  created  an  Efficiency  and  Economy  Committee  that  has 
been  assiduously  engaged  in  devising  methods  for  the  consolida- 
tions of  State  departments  and  commissions  and  procuring 
retrenchments  of  expenses. 

It  is  building  an  entirely  new  State  hospital  to  relieve  the 
overcrowded  conditions  of  the  other  asylums  or  State  hospitals 
with  all  posible  speed  and  despatch. 

It  has  placed  upon  the  statute  books  the  first  practical  road- 
making  law  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  and  is  vigorously  engaged  in 
the  upbuilding  of  the  roads  of  the  state. 

It  has  enacted  a  law  requiring  the  semi-monthly  payment  of 
wages  and  salaries  by  all  corporations  in  the  state. 


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It  lias  abolished  the  fraud-  and  scandals  in  the  fish  and  game  de- 
partment, and  consolidated  these  departments  so  as  to  give  suffi- 
cient fish  and  game  protection. 

It  has  enacted  an  excellent  workmen's  compensation  act,  which 
provides  for  definite  reward  to  injured  employees. 

It  has  amended  the  Mechanic's  Lien  law  so  ;i-  to  give  a'.->ub-con- 
tractor  a  lien  on  a  building  for  labor  and  material  furnished. 

It  has  enacted  laws  providing  for  greater  safety  in  mining  opera- 

.  and  has  further  developed  the  establishment  of  rescue  stations 
to  relieve  miners  from  the  dangers  incident  to  that  great  industry. 

It  has  enacted  a  law  permitting  the  organization  of  corporations 
for  leaning  money  by  wage  assignment  and  limiting  the  rate  of  in- 
terest ur  compensation  therfor. 

It  has  placed  upon  the  statute  books  a  law  which  requires  the 
owners  of  coal  mines,  mills  and  foundries  and  other  work-shops  to 
maintain  sanitary  washrooms,  convenient  to  the  place  of  employment, 
for  the  use  of  employees,  and  passed  many  other  laws  in  the  interest 
of  the  whole  people. 

It  has  moreover  changed  the  whole  course  of  treatment  for  the 
wards  of  the  state.  In  the  penal  institutions,  reform  and  not  ven- 
geance has  been  the  watchword. 

I  fnder  the  Democratic  administration  in  the  charitable  institutions 
of  the  state  extensive  building  operations  are  now  in  progress,  which 
will  provide  adequate  room  for  the  patients  and  proper  accommoda- 
itons  for  the  employees. 

It  has  humanized  and  civilized  the  state  institutions  of  Illinois 
by  abolishing  corporal  punishment  in  all  those  institutions  having  to  do 
with  the  care  and  training  of  children;  by  abolishing  all  mechanical 
restraint  and  all  brutality  in  the  handling  of  the  patients  in  the  state 
hospitals,  and  by  adopting  and  instituting  the  eight  hour  system  for 
the  benefit  of  the  employees. 

We  demand  of  the  next  session  of  the  General  Assembly  the  re- 
apportionment of  the  state  into  Congressional,  Senatorial  and  Judicial 
Districts  that  will  correct  the  inequalities  and  injustices  of  existing 
partisan  Republican  apportionments. 

It  is  a  well  established  rule  of  common  law  that  interest  upon  or 
other  accretions  to  a  trust  fund  follow  the  trust.  Public  funds  are 
trust  funds.  Therefore  all  accretions  and  earnings  or  profits  upon 
public  funds,  whether  in  the  form  of  interest  on  bank  deposits  or  other- 
wise, belong  by  right  to  the  people  for  whom  such  public  funds  are 
held  in  trust,  and  every  resource  of  the  law  should  be  employed  to 
compel  all  officers  charged  with  the  care  of  public  funds  to  account 
for  and  cover  into  the  public  treasury  all  accretions  to  and  earnings  or 
profits  on  such  funds.  We  demand  immediate  legislation  to  facilitate 
enforcement  of  this  simple  rule  of  comimon  law  and  common  honesty. 

We  favor  immediate  revision  by  the  General  Assembly  of  all 
civil  service  laws  now  on  the  statute  books  to  the  end  that  the  de- 
ficiencies, ambiguities  and  absurdities  of  such  laws  be  corrected ;  and 
we  favor  extension  of  the  revised  civil  service  laws  so  as  to  make 
thorn  applicable  to  the  employees  of  the  Sanitary  District  of  Chicago. 


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the  clerk  and  bailiff  of  the  Municipal  Court  of  (  hicago  and  the  Elec- 
tion Commission  of  Chicago.  We  favor  the  extension  of  the  civil 
service  system  and  authority  to  all  the  offices  connected  with  the  Mu- 
nicipal Courts  an<l  the  county  government  oJ   Cook  County. 

We  demand  immediate  legislation  that  will  provide  effective  g 
ernmenta]  supervision  and  control  of  all  persons,  firms  or  corporations 
conducting  a  hank  or  holding  themselves  <>ut  to  the  public  as  bankers, 
within  the  State  of  Illinois. 

We  favor  the  immediate  legislation  to  provide  fof  the  election  o\ 
all  jii  ficers  at  a  time  when  no  other  officers  are  to  be  el 

We  renew  our  demand  for  the  passage  of  an  adequate  corrupt 
practices  act. 

Establishment  of  a  merchant  marine,  the  restoration  of  the  United 
States  to  it-  rightful  place  among  the  maritime  nation,  and  the  up- 
building of  our  foreign  trade  go  hand  in  hand.  Our  candidate  for 
United  States  Senator  has  taken  an  advanced  position  on  these  issues 
and  we  hereby  heartily  endorse  his  views  and  incorporate  them  as 
part  of  thi>  platform. 

Federal  aid  for  the  building  of  good  roads  has  also  been  advocated 
by  our  Senatorial  candidate.  We  pledge  him  the  support  of  the  party 
in  his  fight  to  obtain  it. 


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REPUBLICAN  PLATFORM. 

Adopted   by   Republican    State    Convention   at    Peoria,    September 

18,   1914. 

The  Republican  party  in  Illinois,  assembled  by  their  representa- 
tives in  State  convention  more  than  a  half  a  century  after  its  first  great 
historic  victory  inspired  and  led  by  Abraham  Lincoln,  appeal.-  to  the 
awakened  intelligence  and  experience  of  the  people  applied  to  the 
present  Democratic  administration,  and  in  memory  of  the  matchless 
achievements  of  the  Republican  party  and  its  present  fitness  and  ca- 
pacity rightly  to  meet  and  solve  all  issues  before  the  American  peo- 
ple, asks  the  election  of  its  candidates  and  the  approval  of  its  policies. 
We  send  our  greetings  to  the  republicans  of  every  state  and  all  others 
in  accord  with  them,  with  the  assurance  that  the  state  of  Lincoln, 
Grant  and  Logan  will  be  redeemed  from  the  Democratic  party  and 
restored  to  the  traditions  and  principles  that  have  always  matte  the 
Republican  party  the  only  safe,  creative  and  Progressive  party  of  the 
country  capable  of  successfully  preserving,  developing  and  applying 
such  principles  as  will  restore  prosperity,  promote  social  justice  and 
secure  civil  libertv  under  the  regulation  of  the  wise  and  just  laws. 

The  Republican  party  appeals  to  all  who  believe  in  its  principle- 
and  its  ability  properly  and  well  to  administer  the  government  i  if 
the  country,  to  unite  in  its  support  and  elect  its  candidate-  to  the  end 
that  its  governmental  principles  may  be  substituted  for  the  unquiet, 
sectional  and  destructive  experiments  and  legislation  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  which  elected  its  president  in  1912  by  a  minority  lacking 
nearly  one  and  onedialf  million  votes  of  a  popular  majority.  The 
division  of  those  opposed  to  the  Dcmoratic  party  not  only  continues 
ii  in  power,  with  its  demonstrated 'incapacity  and  unfitness  to  govern 
the  country,  but  promotes  control  by  such  minorities  as  hinder  and 
weaken  the  rule  of  the  people. 

The  record  of  the  Democratic  party  since  it  as-urned  the  powers 
of  government  March  4.  1913,  is  one  of  breken  promises  and  faith 
betrayed.  Its  pledges  have  been  kept  neither  when  in  office  nor  can 
they  be  relied  upon  during  the  campaign. 

REPUBLICAN  EXTRAVAGANCE. 

It  denounced  appropriations  made  by  the  Republican  congresses 
a-  a  profligate  waste  of  public  funds,  the  cause  of  high  taxe>.  and 
demanded  a  return  to  simplity  and  economy,  which  were  claimed  as 
a  democratic  virtue.  In  power  in  both  houses  of  congress  and  in  the 
ofhee  of  president,  the  most  Democratic  party  has  been  the  most  ex- 
travagant and  wasteful  in  the  history  of  our  country.  New  offices  have 
been  created  as  partisan  spoils,  needless  appropriations  passed,  and 
under  the  guise  of  internal  improvements  the  most  lavish  and  useless 
river  and  harbor  bill  ever  framed  has  passed  the  house,  the  objects  of 


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whose  expenditure  in  large  part  are  grossly  sectional  and  the  result 
of  shameless  bargaining  for  local  interests  having  no  relation  to  the 
general  welfare.  We  condemn  it  and  the  reprehensible  practices  that 
create  it,  and  demand  that  logrolling  and  pork  barrel  methods  of  loot- 
ing the  treasury  be  permanently  abandoned  and  such  appropriations 
be  based  upon  the  systematic  needs  of  waterways  and  coast  improve- 
ments and  expended  so  as  to  be  a  public  benefit  instead  of  a  local 
favoritism. 

Instead  of  lowering  taxes  by  simplicity  and  economy,  the  appro- 
priations of  the  Democratic  party  exceed  by  nearly  one  hundred  mil- 
lion dollar?  those  of  any  preceding  Republican  congress.  With 
government  expenditures  in  excess  of  revenue  receipts  by  many  mil- 
lions, Democratic  promises  of  economy  are  broken  and  that  party  is 
now  devising  new  tax  laws  to  impose  additional  burdens  on  the  people, 
rather  than  a  retrenchment  in  its  profligate  waste  of  constantly  dwind- 
ling revenue  under  existing  laws. 

HIGH  COST  OF  LIVING. 

The  Republican  protective  tariff  was  falsely  charged  with  the  high 
cost  of  living  and  with  burdening  the  American  farmer  and  laboring 
man.  Under  the  free  trade  legislation  of  the  Democratic  party  the 
fanner's  product  has  been  cheapened  in  his  hands  and  the  American 
workman  has  seen  our  pay-rolls  diminished  or  destroyed  so  that  the 
loss  of  emplovment  has  crippled  the  purchasing  power  of  his  toil  and 
the  high  cost  of  living  has  become  higher,  with  nothing  lower  except 
the  ability  of  all  to  transact  business  and  earn  a  living- 

FEDERAL  CIVIL  SERVICE. 

The  Democratic  party  pledged  itself  honestly  and  rightly  to  en- 
force the  civil  service  laws  of  the  United  States.  It  has  debased  the 
service,  violated  the  letter  and  spirit  of  existing  laws,  refused  to  place 
offices  created  under  new  laws  under  civil  service  and  returned  to  the 
abandoned  and  reactionary  practice  that  to  the  victor  belongs  the  spoils. 

It  denounced  the  Republican  principle  of  protection  to  American 
labor  and  industries  as  unconstitutional,  and  declared  for  free  trade 
in  most  of  the  articles,  the  like  of  which  we  have  the  ability  to  produce 
in  our  country  sufficient  for  our  own  need,  and  for  a  tariff  for  revenue 
only  on  the  remainder  of  such  articles.  Its  revision  of  the  tariff  in 
the  Act  of  Oct. 3d,  L913,is  a  sectional  measure  discriminating  against 
the  farmers'  products  of  the  North  and  West  and  the  products  of  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  against  the  laboring  men  and  manufacturers  of  the 
entire  country  by  removing  the  protective  barriers  that  gave  them 
the  just  advantage  of  our  markets  and  our  wage  scales  and  equalized 
the  difference  in  wages  at  home  and  abroad.  It  pledged  itself  to  des- 
troy no  legitimate  industry.  By  freelisting  sugar  it  has  destroyed 
the  cane  sugar  and  crippled  the  beet  sugar  industry  so  that  neither 
can  be  restored  except  by  promptly  returning  to  a  Republican  pro- 
e   duty  on   sugar,   which   alone   gave   us  S5o.(X)0.000  of   revenue 


34  LEGISLATIVE    REFERENCE    BUREAU 

anuallv  and  imposed  no  burden  on  the  people.  As  a  source  of  revenue, 
the  Democratic  tariff  act  is  a  self-confessed  failure.  From  it  a  deficit 
would  have  resulted  under  ordinary  conditions;  the  war  in  Europe  has 
only  hastened  the  appearance  of  a  deficit  which  is  a  natural  result  of 
the  Democratic  party's  tariff  act,  and  a  normal  symptom  that  in- 
variably marks  its  attempts  to  govern  the  country.  A  treasury  deficit 
of  more  than  $100,000,000  is  now  apparent.  Instead  of  meeting  it  by 
prudent  economy  and  a  wise  reduction  of  appropriations,  war  taxes 
are  proposed  when  we  are  at  peace,  leading  to  additional  burdens  on 
the  people.  The  necessity  for  this  tax  is  not  created  mainly  by  the 
European  war.  While  the  decrease  of  revenue  from  duties  is  partly 
due  to  reduced  imports,  it  is  more  largely  caused  by  a  reduction  in 
duties,  by  lowering  rates  on  some  or  entirely  freelisting  other  articles. 
The  Democratic  party  is  n<  >t  responsible  for  our  reduced  imports  since 
the  war  began,  but  the  loss  of  revenue  on  imports  since  the  war  is 
directly  chargeable  to  that  party.  In  view  of  this,  we  declare  that 
Republican  protective  tariff  law  is  better  than  additional  and  excessive 
taxation  of  the  American  people. 

C(  >L<  A1BIAX  TREATY. 

The  Democratic  party  has  presented  to  the  United  States  senate 
a  proposed  treaty  with  Colombia  that  apologizes  for  and  expre-.se- 
regrets  for  our  recognition  of  the  independence  of  the  Republic  of 
Panama,  our  treaty  by  which  we  acquired  the  Canal  Zone  from  the 
new  republic,  and  binds  the  American  people  to  pay  Colombia  $25.- 
000,000  damages.  Nothing  but  a  concurring  vote  of  the  United  States 
senate  is  now  lacking  for  this  national  humiliation.  We  oppose  the 
ratification  of  the  proposed  treaty,  and  arraign  the  Democratic  party 
for  its  betrayal  of  the  honor  and  interests  of  the  American  people 
embodied  in  the  measure  and  declare  against  its  ratification  of  such 
]  ir<  ipi  >sed  treaty. 

THE  TARIFF. 

The  Republican  party  of  Illinois  declares  its  settled  faith  in  an 
allegiance  to  the  principle  of  protection  as  absolutely  essential  to  the 
maintenance  of  living  wages  for  the  workingmen  of  our  country  and 
the  foundation  of  American  agricultural  and  industrial  independence 
and  prosperity.  A  protective  tariff  taxes  foreign  products  competitive 
with  our  own  when  imported.  It  gives  our  markets  to  our  producers 
and  creates  American  payrolls  with  the  American  standard  of  wages 
for  our  workingmen.  It  diffuses  its  benefits  throughout  our  entire 
country,  so  that  our  common  strength  arises  from  the  strength  of  each. 
and  keeps  control  of  prices  in  our  hands  at  home,  instead  of  sur- 
rendering it  to  foreign  countries.  It  is  national  and  not  section  in  its 
benefits  and  not  only  develops  and  maintains  our  industries,  but  pro- 
duces the  larger  part  of  our  public  revenues  by  placing  the  burden  on 
the  foreign  producer  as  the  price  of  selling  his  merchandise  in  our 
markets.  We  recall  with  especial  satisfaction  at  this  time  that  no  pro- 
tective tariff  of  the  Republican  party  since  the  close  of  the  Civil  war 


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has  failed  to  produce  sufficient  revenue  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the 
government. 

The  rates  of  custom  duties  is  a  practical  matter  to  be  governed 
from  time  to  time  by  conditions  of  production  and  market-;  the  un- 
deviating  principle  is  the  protection  of  American  labor,  agriculture  and 
industries.  To  that  end  we  favor  a  tariff  commission  to  gather  correel 
information  SO  accurately  to  apply  tariff  rates  to  meet  changing  con- 
ditions and  not  to  base  such  legislation  on  the  lack  of  knowledge  and 
die  loose  conjecture  that  guided  the  Democratic  party  in  passing  the 
Wilson-Underwood  tariff  act. 

STATE  ADMINISTRATK  >\. 

The  Democratic  administration  in  this  state  came  into  power  after 
a  campaign  of  charges  against  the  Republican  administration,  every 
one  of  which  has  been  proven  false,  and  upon  pledges  and  promises, 
not  one  of  which  has  been  proven  false. 

The  charge  was  made  that  the  tax  rate  of  thirty-five  cents  fixed 
by  the  last  Republican  administration  was  excessive.  The  first  tax 
rate  levied  for  state  purposes  by  the  present  Democratic  administra- 
tion was  fixed  at  seventy  cents;  double  the  highest  rate  ever  raised 
and  expended  by  the  Republican  administration. 

The  charge  was  made  that   Republican   appropriation-   of   $2 
000.000   were  extravagant.      The  first   appropriations   made    for   state 
purposes  by  the  Democratic  administration  aggregate  $38,000,000 
an  increase  of  S!l,000,000. 

ST  Aid-;  CIVIL  SERVICE. 

The  charge  was  made  that  the  Republican  state  civil  .service  law 
and  its  administration  were  a  "fake."  Since  the  inauguration  of  the 
Democratic  administration,  this  law  has  been  assailed  in  the  Illinois 
courts  by  the  Democratic  attorney  general;  it  has  been  attacked  by  a 
Democratic  legislature  through  amendments  weakening  its  force  and 
diminishing  its  authority;  and  its  intergrity  has  been  violated  and  its 
administration  preverted  to  political  and  partisan  purposes  through 
the  machinery  of  the  dental  Civil  Service  commission  itself,  resulting 
in  diminished  efficiency  and  economy  in  the  management  of  all  state 
institutions  and  departments  of  the  state  government. 

Idle  charge  was  made  that  Republican  officials  were  incompetent 
to  discharge  their  duties.  The  record  of  the  Democratic  administra- 
tion shows  an  increased  cost  and  a  steady  deterioration  of  service  in 
every  branch  of  the  state  government.  This  fact  has  been  so  no- 
torious and  so  firmly  Uxv^\  in  the  public  mind  that  it  is  deemed  un- 
necessary to  point  out  specific  instances  to  add  to  the  overwhelming 
evidence  of  the  lack  of  qualification  of  Democratic  state  officails.  both 
elective  and  appointive,  to  meet  the  responsibilities  or  perform  the 
duties  of  the  various  departments  of  the  state  government. 

To  bring  to  an  end  the  wastefulness,  extravagance  and  inefficiency 
which  have  characterized  the  present  Democratic  administration;  to 
give  to  the  people  of  Illinois  an  honest  and  effective  administration 


36  LEGISLATIVE  REFERENCE  BUREAU 

of  the  state  government,  and  to  restore  to  the  conduct  of  public  affairs 
the  efficiency  and  economy  of  Republican  administration,  we  call  upon 
the  voters  of  Illinois  to  rally  to  the  support  of  the  Republican  candi- 
dates so  that  this  great  task,  of  such  vital  interest  to  the  people  of 
Illinois,  may  he-  accomplished. 

The  Republican  party  pledges  itself  if  restored  to  power,  to  work 
for  the  following  reforms,  which  it  believes  to  be  of  paramount  im- 
portance in  the  legislative  and  administrative  work  of  the  state: 

The  enactment  of  a  comprehensive  corrupt  practices  Act  ap- 
plicable to  all  public  offices. 

The  extension  of  civil  service  principles  to  all  branches  of  the 
^tate  service. 

A  comprehensive  reform  of  our  state  revenue  system  to  the  end 
that  the  burdens  of  taxation  may  be  justly  and  equitably  distributed. 

WOMAN  SUFI' RAGE. 
The  granting  of  unlimited  suffrage  to  women  voters. 
STATE  CONSTITUTION. 

The  amendment  or  revision  of  the  state  constitution  to  the  end 
that  miich  needed  reforms  which  are  prevented,  hampered  or  delayed 
by  the  restrictive  provision  of  the  present  state  constitution  may  be 
obtained  most  easily,  most  quickly  and  most  completely. 

We  re-affirm  the  platform  adopted  by  the  Republican  State  con- 
vention in  1910  and  the  platform  of  the  Republican  National  conven- 
tion of  1912  in  reference  to  trust  and  private  monopolies. 

The  Illinois  Farmers'  institute  has  always  been  a  non-partisan 
non-political  organization  for  the  advancement  of  farm  life  and  farm- 
ing. 

The  Republican  party  views  with  regret  any  attempt  to  hamper 
its  work  or  lessen  its  usefulness  and  pledges  to  restore  it  to  its  former 
place  and  to  keep  it  unhampered  and  free  from  political  domination 
or  control. 


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ILLINOIS  PROGRESSIVE  PARTY  PLATFORM. 

Adopted  by  Progressive  State  Convention  at  Urbana,  Sept.  18,  1914. 

The  Progressive  party  of  Illinois,  again  assembled  in  state 
convention  affirms  anew  the  program  of  social  justice,  of  economic 
progress  and  of  fair  and  "permanent  prosperity"  which  the  party 
gave  to  the  country  in  1('12. 

We  meet  at  a  crucial  moment.  The  "old  parties"  offer  the 
state  two  senatorial  candidates  smirched  by  franchise  grabbing 
and  the  taint  of  legislative  conspiracy  or  corruption.  The  fact 
summons  the  citizenship  of  Illinois,  irrespective  of  party,  to  the 
support  of  Raymond  Robins  for  United  States  senator  for  the 
effective  destruction  of  the  political  tradition  that  has  made  Lori 
merism  a  national  disgrace. 

Back  of  the  standards  of  the  reactionary  leaders  of  the  Kepubli- 
cans  and  Democrats  is  a  host  of  other  candidates  whose  defeat  the 
Progressives  of  Illinois  hereby  pledge  themselves  to  achieve.  We 
enthusiastically  pledge  our  loyalty  to  the  congressional,  legislative 
and  county  nominees  of  the  Progressive  party,  asking  in  their 
behalf  the  support  of  all  citizens  who  wish  to  eradicate  bossism  and 
dishonesty  from  public  office. 

FACE  VITAL  [SSUES. 

In  nation  and  state  supreme  issues  confront   us. 

Nationally,  the  European  war  confronts  us.     lt>  disorganiza 
tion  of  the  world's  commerce,  its  revelation  of  our  own  lack  of  a 
merchant  marine  should  come  as  a  summons   to  American   com- 
mercial and  agricultural  enterprise  and  as  a  vital  proof  of  the  need 
of  sound  economic  legislation. 

The  Democratic  part)-  through  extravagance  in  state  and  na- 
tion has  made  it  more  difficult  for  us  to  meet  this  crisis.  Nation- 
ally it  has  framed  the  biggest  appropriations  that  the  country  has 
known.  The  Democratic  chairman  of  the  House  appropriation- 
committee  has  publicly  accused  his  Democratic  colleagues  of  "pil- 
ing up  public  expenditures  until  the  Democratic  part}'  is  becoming 
the  laughing  stock  of  the  country."  In  the  Illinois  legislature  the 
I  democrats,  through  a  Republican  chairman  of  the  House  approp- 
riations committee,  have  surpassed  all  records  for  extravagance, 
despite  their  personal  and  platform  pledges  for  economy,  by  doubl- 
ing the  rate  of  taxation. 

ECONOMY  DEMANDED. 

We  demand  a  reduction  in  state  appropriations. 

We  protest  now  against  further  consideration  of  the  Demo- 
cratic proposal  to  pay  $25,000,000  to  Colombia  to  salve  the  pride  of 
a  country  which  tried  to  hold  up  the  building  of  the  world's  water 
way  known  as  the  Panama  Canal. 


38  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE    BUREAU 

Twenty  years  ago  less  than  one-fourth  of  the  breadwinners 
of  this  country  worked  for  a  wage  paid  by  others.  Now,  over  one- 
half  of  the  breadwinners  work  for  wages  and  7,000,000  women  and 
2,000,000  children  are  enrolled  in  the  armies  of  industry.  Half  a 
million  men  hungered  in  our  greatest  cities  last  winter.  The  whole 
condition  proves  that  it  is  not  enough  for  the  government  to 
regulate  relations  between  business  enterprises :  it  must,  within 
wise  limitations,  not  only  control  the  strong  but  help  the  weak. 

ASSEMBLY  CRITICIZED. 

In  the  state  the  need  for  sound  progress  and  sane  reform  is  as 
great  as  that  need  in  Congress.  The  last  general  assembly  of 
[llinois  was  controlled  by  a  reactionary  bi-partisan  combine  of  Re- 
publicans and  Democrats.  Under  this  leadership  it  killed  the 
the  initiative  and  referendum  bill,  a  measure  overwhelmingly  de- 
manded by  vote  of  the  people,  it  killed  the  resolution  to  submit  to 
popular  vote  the  proposal  for  a  constitutional  convention;  it  killed 
the  bill  to  permit  cities  to  have  nonpartisan  elections. 

The  same  bipartisan  combination,  its  Republican  wing  led  by 
Senator  Lawrence  Y.  Sherman,  elected  to  the  all-powerful  position 
of  speaker  of  the  house  a  Sullivan  Democrat.  It  killed  the  resolu- 
tion to  free  the  house  from  secret  domination  of  the  speaker ;  it 
killed  the  bill  to  limit  the  hours  of  women  working  in  factories  ;  it 
killed  the  bill  for  one  day's  rest  in  seven. 

For  all  these  reforms  the  Progressive  members  of  the  legis- 
lature fought,  just  as  they  alone  unitedly  voted  for  woman  suff- 
rage, which  was  opposed  by  Democratic  and  Republican  reaction- 
aries alike. 

Finally,  we  emphasize  the  fact  that  the  Progressive  party  pro- 
gram, in  both  national  and  state  legislatures,  has  been  blocked 
and  crippled  by  the  corrupt  and  shameless  abuse  of  the  systems 
of  political  machinery  controlled  by  the  rings  of  the  two  old  parties. 

REFORMS  ARE  PLEDGED. 

In  view  of  these  conditions,  be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  That  the  Progressives  of  Illinois  declare  the  trust 
legislation  of  the  Sixty-third  Congress  inadequate,  and  pledge  their 
candidates  for  the  federal  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives 
to  labor  and  to  vote  for  the  creation  of  a  comprehensive  and  power- 
ful trade  commission,  as  planned  in  the  Murdock  bills; 

Resolved,  That  we  also  pledge  these  candidates  to  work  and 
to  vote  for  the  immediate  creation  of  a  permanent,  expert,  non- 
partisan tariff  commission  to  advise  congress  upon  all  tariff  change. 
especially  those  rendered  wise  by  the  great  economic  consequences  of 
the  European  war. 

O  >NGRESS  HELD  I. AX. 

Resolved,  That  we  pass  vigorous  criticism  upon  the  Demo- 
cratic majority  in  the  Sixty-third  Congress  for  its  refusal  to  legis- 
late for  the  prohibition  of  child  labor,  for  the  investigation  of  the 
need  for  social  insurance  and  for  the  creation  of  a  federal  employ- 
ment bureau  ;  and  that  our  party  hereby  pledges  its  candidates  for 


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the  twv->  houses  of  Congress  to  legislate  to  these  ends  and  for  othei 
legislation  to  meet  the  increasing  needs  and  opportunities  of  the 
farmer  and  the  wage  worker. 

Resolved,  Thai  we  pledge  these  candidates  to  work  for  a 
powerful  navy,  adequate  to  the  strategic  requirements  of  a  sea- 
board protection  and  best  gained  by  a  naval  program  of  not  less 
than  three  battleships  a  year  until  such  time  as  the  greal  powers 
of  the  world  can  be  federated  into  an  international  courl  with  in- 
ternational police  to  preserve  the  principle  of  arbitration  of  dis- 
putes between  nations;  and  that  our  members  of  Congress  be  in- 
structed to  aid  international  disarmament  by  every  means  in  their 
power  in  the  interests  of  the  larger  well-being  of  mankind. 

NEEDS  <  )!•  ILLIN1  >IS. 

In  view  of  the  conditions  in  Illinois,  as  set  forth  above,  be  it 
also 

Resolved,  Thai  a  constitutional  convention  to  revise  the  archaic 
state  constitution  of  1870  is  the  greatest  need  of  Illinois  today. 

Resolved,  That  the  complete  enfranchisement  of  women,  the 
initiative,    referendum    and    recall,    the    short    ballot    and    minority 

representation  all  cry  for  a  constitutional  convention,  and  that  we 
pledge  all  of  our  legislative  candidates  to  work  for  it. 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  especially  and  expressly  pledge  oui 
nominees  to  work  for  the  initiative  and  referendum. 

Resolved,  That  we  pledge  our  state  candidates  to  work  and  to 
vote  for  such  house  rules  as  may  limit  the  powers  of  the  speakei 
exclusively  to  those  of  presiding  officer;  to  vote  to  elect  the  com- 
mittee on  rules  from  the  floor  of  the  house,  and  to  confer  upon  that 
committee  the  power  either  to  select  or  to  nominate  for  confirma- 
tion by  the  house  all  standing  committees. 

Resolved,  That  we  further  pledge  our  members  of  the  legis- 
lature to  require  and  provide  for  the  prompt  appraisal  of  the  pro 
pert)  values  of  the  statewide  utility  combinations,  notabh  the 
McKinley  traction  system  and  the  so-called  "Instill  group,"  to  -how 
what  difference  there  be,  if  any,  betw-een  capitalization  and  actual 
\  alue. 

Resolved,  That  we  pledge  the  Progressive  legislators  to  throw 
all  their  strength  to  strengthen  the  merit  system  in  the  civil  service 
against  the  reactionary  attacks  made  upon  it  by  the  Democrats  in 
the  last  few  years,  and  to  extend  civil  service  to  Cook  County,  the 
Chicago  sanitary  district  and  the  Chicago  Municipal  courts. 

CHICAGO  HOME  RULE. 

Resolved,  That  this  convention  recommend  that  the  general 
assembly  give  to  the  City  of  Chicago  the  power  to  regulate  the 
public  utility  trust  within  its  borders,  without  prejudice,  however, 
to  what  max  prove  to  be  the  sound  policy  for  the  control  of  similar 
utilities  in  the  smaller  cities. 

Resolved.  That  we  favor  reform  in  the  methods  of  legal  procedure, 
so  that  technical  requirements  shall  not  unreasonably  delay  the 
suitor's  demand  for  relief. 

Resolved,  We  demand  the  passage  of  an  entirely  new   drainage 


40  LEGISLATIVE   REFERENCE    BUREAU 

act,  simple,  direct  and  concise  in  its  provision  and  equally  pro- 
tective of  the  rights  of  property  owners  and  of  those  requiring 
i  trganized  drainage. 

\(  >NP  VkTISAX    BENCH. 

Resolved,  That  we  Favor  the  enactment  of  a  law.  subject  to 
the  referendum  of  the  people,  providing  for  the  nonpartisan  nomi- 
nation and  election  of  all  county,  municipal  and  judicial  officers. 

Resolved,  That  in  addition  to  the  foregoing  we  pledge  our 
party  and  its  representatives  to  bring  into  actual  legislative  effect 
these  further  principles  from  our  platform  of  1912: 

Rural  credit  for  farmers. 

Living  wage  standards  for  women  to  be  established  by  wage 
boards. 

Eight-hour  day  for  women  industrial  workers. 

Secret  primaries. 

Abolition  of  contract  labor  in  prisons. 

TO  PROTECT  WORKERS. 

Creation    of   standards    for    compensation    for   death    and    injury 

in  industry. 

A  system  of  social  insurance  especially  adapted  to  American 
c<  -nditions. 

Continuation  schools  for  industrial  education  of  youth. 

State  supervision  of  private  banks. 

"Blue  sky"  law  to  protect  the  public  from  fictitious  stocks  and 
bonds. 

More  experiment  stations  and  agricultural  contests. 

Abolition  of  state  board  of  equalization  and  creation  of  an  ap- 
pointive tax  commission. 

Finally,  be  it  resolved,  That  the  state  committee  be  and  here- 
by is  instructed  immediately  to  require  of  all  Progressive  candi- 
dates for  Congress  or  the  general  assembly  a  signed  pledge  to 
support  the  measures  introduced  in  fulfillment  of  the  program 
herein  set  forth,  or  to  declare  publicly  and  in  writing  those  which 
they  propose  to  oppose. 


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ILLINOIS  SOCIALIST  PARTY  PLATFORM. 

Adopted    at    Socialist    State    Convention    held    at    Chicago,    Sept. 

18,  1914. 

"The  Socialist  Party  of  the  Stale  of  Illinois,  a  part  of  the  Social- 
ist Party  of  the  United  States,  and  affiliated  with  the  Socialist  organi- 
zations  throughout  the  world,  stands  for  the  right  of  all  people  to  enjoy 
life-,  to  have  liberty  and  to  attain  happiness. 

"As  a  result  of  the  private  and  corporate  ownership  of  the  means 
of  making  a  living  the  great  mass  of  humanity  is  oppressed,  robbed 
and  denied  its  common  rights. 

'"The  interest  of  the  owning  class  is  opposed  to  that  of  the  work- 
ing class.  Better  wages,  better  working  conditions,  better  living  con- 
ditions, mean  less  rent,  less  interest  and  less  profit-. 

•'Through  the  control  of  the  judiciary,  legislative  and  adminis- 
trative bodies  by  the  owning  class  the  rights  of  property  and  profits  are 
defended  and  made  of  the  highest  importance.  Through  the  suite 
means  the  working  class  is  kept  in  subjection.  Witness  the  oppres 
sion  of  the  Woolen  Mill  operatives  in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts;  the 
shooting  of  men.  women  and  children  in  the  coal  field  of  West  \  ir- 
ginia;  the  assaults,  deportations,  and  breaking  of  the  strike  in  the 
Calumet  District  of  Michigan;  the  unspeakable  outrages  and  awful 
slaughter  in  Ludlow,  Colorado. 

"This  i>  the  same  treatment  that  the  working  class  of  Illinois 
must  expect  in  future  conflicts  with  the  owning  class  until  the  workers 
shall  secure  control  of  the  law  making,  law  enforcing  and  law  deciding 
bodic  -. 

SUPPORT  ORGANIZED  LABOR, 

"The  socialist  Party  recognizes  the  great  benefits  secured  and 
maintained  through  labor  organizations  and  pledges  its  support  to  or- 
ganized labor  in  all  its  contests  with  the  Capitalist  clas>  to  improve 
conditions 

"We,  however,  call  the  union  workers'  attention  to  the  fact  that 
although  organized  labor  can  increase  wages  and  raise  the  standard 
of  the  workers'  life  it  cannot  solve  the  great  problem  of  unemployment 
and  cannot  secure  to  the  worker  his  full  share  of  the  social  wealth 
produced.  Unions  fight  to  better  the  conditions  of  the  labor  market. 
Socialists  propose  to  abolish  the  labor  market  by  making  the  workers 
joint  owners  of  the  social  means  of  production  and  distribution,  by  the 
election  of  Socialists  to  office,  and  through  them  instituting  the  munici- 
pal, state  and  national  ownership  of  industries. 

"The  Socialist  Party  is  the  organized  expression  of  the  working 
class  on  the  political  field  and  its  elective  and  appointive  officials  have 


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in  the  past,  du  now  and  will  in  the  future  place  the  rights  of  worker- 
first  and  foremost. 

'As  measures  to  advance  these  aims  the  Socialist  Party  of  Illi- 
nois pledges  itself  and  its  officials  to  the  following  immediate  de- 
mands : 

STATE  PROGRAM. 

I.  Old  age  pensions. 

_'.     State  life,  disability,  and  fire  insurance. 

3.  Public  ownership  of  all  water  power. 

4.  State  ownership  and  operation  of  transportation,  with  pro- 
vision tor  municipal  ownership  and  operation. 

5.  Public  ownership  and  operation  of  telephone  communication 
with   provision   for  municipal  ownership  and  operation. 

6.  An  adequate  cooperative  association  law. 

O  INSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTION. 

7.  A  constitutional  convention  providing  for  (a)  the  initiative, 
referendum  and  proportional  representation ;  (b)  complete  woman 
suffrage;  (c)  home  rule  for  cities;  (d)  amendment  of  the  Illinois  State 
I  Constitution  by  a  majority  of  the  voters  voting  thereon. 

8.  The  abolition  of  all  private  employment  agencies,  and  the 
further  development  of  the  Illinois  Free  Employment  <  >ffices. 

9.  Relief  by  the  State  and  municipalities  for  the  unemployed 
by  the  improvement  of  highways  and  other  public  work-;. 

10.  Legislation,  curbing  the  use  of  injunctions;  providing  for 
jury  trials  in  all  proceedings  for  contempt  of  court  growing  out  of 
labor  disputes;  and  protecting  workers  and  their  families  in  time  of 
industrial  conflict;  and  to  prohibit  by  law  the  employment  and  use  of 
privately  hired  police,  detectives,  and  gunmen  in  industrial  disputes. 

II.  The  compulsory  publication  of  the  fact  that  a  strike  is  in 
progress  whenever  men  are  solicited  to  take  the  place  of  striking 
workers. 

LIMITATION  ON  INHERITANCE. 

12.  Modification  of  the  law  of  this  state,  with  reference  to  in- 
heritance and  wills,  limiting  inheritance  exclusively  to  heirs  and  the 
amount  which  direct  and  collateral  heirs  may  receive  as  follows:  Wid- 
ows not  to  exceed  $100,000,  direct  heirs  not  to  exceed  $50,000,  col- 
lateral heirs  not  to  exceed  $25,000.  All  the  remainder  of  the  deceased's 
estate  to  become  the  property  of  the  state. 

13.  Improvement  of  the  Public  School  System,  and  the  passage 
of  a  law  to  authorize  the  educational  bodies  of  this  state  to  make 
every  school  a  social  center  and  furnish  free  text  books  and  free  meals 
t<>  all  who  attend  the  public  schools. 

14.  The  enactment  of  a  corrupt  practices  act  to  prevent  excessive 
expenditures  and  corruption  in  elections. 


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15.  Establishment  of  a  more  comprehensive  merit  system  for  all 
state  and  county  employes. 

16.  An  act  guaranteeing-  the  right  of  picketing  in  labor  dispute-. 

STAND  l  »\  OUR  REG  >RD. 

In  conclusion,  we  emphasize  the  fact  that  the  Socialist  Party 
platform  is  not  merely  a  list  of  empty  promises  like  old  party  plat- 
forms. Official  reports  prove  that  the  four  Socialists  elected  to  the 
Illinois  Legislature  two  years  ago  did  all  in  their  power  to  carry  out 
the  Socialist  platform.  They  introduced  forty-five  bills  for  the  im- 
provement of  the  conditions  of  the  working  class.  These  bills  were 
defeated  by  Republican,  Democratic  and  Progressive  politicians  who 
represent  capitalist  interests. 


* 


Gaylord  Hros. 

Makers 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

PM.JMI.21, 1908 


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